I'm posting these nice results about the prince esp 100t racquet here, because the other topic seems dead:
tried our beloved Prince 100t with the cheap, anonymous
prince tournament poly 16. A round string that I would never, never use on any of my frames
. But I needed a round poly at 16 gauge for testing again the 100t, so I strung it at 26kg mains / 27kg crosses. I gave +1kg on crosses in order to reduce snap back and improve control, because with my usual setup (1kg more on mains) I got very random shots on the 100t with tour bite(it was 26/25kg).
It is STUNNING how that racquet can perform so well with cheap poly.
I got, to use mikeler words, INTOXICATING spin, power and control all at once. The ball bend heavily any time I use spin, and in my game all strokes are spinny ones
putting more tension on crosses did not affected spin at all, and I got all the control I need.
Beside ball bending, that is one of the funniest thing of tennis (having 10 times in a set the player leaving the ball going outside while in fact the ball drops on the line doesn't have any price ;D ), the most impressive behaviour is a high tension SOFT stringbed. It performs as a very high tension stringbed on backhand slices, dropshots and volleys, while it perform like a low tension stringbed on forehand and backhand, having the ball entering the racquet with a wonderful dwell time. It seems to give the best of the two worlds.
At serve I got some much power on flat serve and so much kick on the second one that I cannot believe to have served so good.
Okey, I have to say that I played with a lower level opponent. It is a friend of mine that never won a match with me in the last 3 years. But it is the perfect opponent to test the racquet aggressively. More tests will come with tougher opponents, but I have been impressed by spin and power without any loss of control, in ANY area of the court.
I could only advice to never try to hit a truly flat shot with this racquet
even the powerful winner has to be shotted with semiwestern, windshield wiper motion, to add spin to the ball.
Last comment: I think I'll never buy prince tournament poly, as it seems really cheap and it already started moving a little after 30minutes of play, with an horrid sound while putting back the strings (something like a "gnek gnek" sound), but this test encourage me to buy the mikeler loved discho iontec salmon 16
obvious to say, very comfort response even at so high tension.
